Middle-Tier Component Architecture

This architecture is vendor-neutral

All three of the major component models are intended to operate in such an environment

The application clients:

• Thin client: simple Web clients
• Rich client: Web clients with some additional processing such as Java applets or ActiveX controls
• Fat client: distributed object clients

The clients :

• executable: Visual Basic applications, Java application,
• Web server plug-in: servlets, Active Server Pages (ASP), CGI scripts